Even if you read as little Polish as I do, a bulletin board like this, in the vestibule leading to the dining room, provides valuable intelligence: It suggests that the center has close ties to an active local community. In such light, homemade rather than professionally printed notices are especially promising.
One possible reward for your attentiveness: a pair of sweet cheese blintzes ($6). The glass of thin compote that came with would have been a better pairing for the hefty lunch plates ordered by many other customers. Despite cross-talk between tables, on this afternoon most folks dined solo, orienting their seats toward the televised newscast in one corner of the room. A Polish-language newscast, of course.
Polish & Slavic Center Cafeteria
177 Kent St. (Manhattan Ave.-McGuinness Blvd.), Greenpoint, Brooklyn
718-349-1033
www.PolishSlavicCenter.org
